Exposure

EX:6

Chapter 6

Sixty's Perspective

"Visualize your highest self and start showing up as her."-Lauren Gleisberg

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       COTTON fabric and strings of thread hung from my fingertips as I adjusted the collar of my newly designed mini dress. I blasted music throughout Owen's bathroom while Jody sat by the bathroom door modeling a cherry red and ivory silk scarf that went along with my dress around his furry neck. I observed the piece of fashion as he licked his paw looking completely lost. I only chuckled looking at the dress in the mirror again.

     It made me proud. My very own design, and it looked terrific. Today would be the day I would present one of my designs to my professor and my class. I was nervous but excitement took over that jittery feeling.

     Jody barked over the music tampering with his neck to take off the scarf. The ruckus caused Owen to come down the hall very upset. He shook his head coming into the bathroom to grab some medicine out of a cabinet.

"Sixty what have I told you about puttin' different shit on my damn dog?"

"Relax O he's just my display for right now."

"I don't give a damn get it off of him. He's a boy and you got him wearing colorful scarfs and shit, stop that." He closed the medicine cabinet after swallowing two pain killers with tap water.

"As if he knows, dogs are color blind."

      He shot me a blank expression walking back up the hall. I took the scarf off of Jody's neck quickly before he could try to bite it. Then I took a plastic bag folding up the scarf and dress placing it into the material so that it wouldn't get damaged.

"I thought you were going to be with Tiana all day anyway. For a man who claims to have missed his girlfriend you sure haven't been seeing her as much since you got back."

I turned off his bathroom light walking up the hall to the living room with my stuff. Jody followed groaning before going over to his food bowl.

"I did too but she's been so busy with school and shit which I understand, but like damn I at least wanna see her face and kiss on her." Owen threw his body across the sofa in a lazy fashion as I teased him sitting down on the other side of the leather brown couch.

"Awe someone's lonely."

He glared at me, "shut the hell up."

"Lonely Owen is a bitch." I placed my hands on my heart making him chuckle.

"You know I haven't spent barely any quality time with her since the day I got back home from Virgina," he stuffed his hands in his pockets.

"Everytime I drop by her and Ally's house she either at the library or in class and on the weekends she's always goin out to the club and shit. I don't wanna sound selfish but I kinda miss the old Tia."

"You mean the one who stayed up under you like a rock all the time?" He threw a pillow at me.

     I wasn't taking sides because I could understand where they both were coming from, but Owen had to understand that Tiana had other priorities and other things going on in life now. Although Owen was my brother, he was still a man, and men sometimes want women to stop what they have going on to feed into their man's attention.